After many years on the road, Toronto (via Brighton, ON) sibling duo Mach Tiver are calling it quits after their summer tour. Their high energy rock shows and beautiful hand-packaged CDs will surely be missed by all who have been touched by the Mach Tiver experience over the years. As a practical joke, I intended to send interview questions originally published in a Hulk Hogan interview, but could only find questions pertaining to “what it's like to be back?”... so, this is what I came up with on my own. Adam answered from the road by email.

Tell us a bit about who you are, where you're from, and what you do. We are Adam and Shannon Goodwin. Originally from Brighton, ON, but now Shannon lives in Toronto and works as a child care provider and I live in St. John's, NF, in a perpetual state of education. I play bass and Shannon plays drums and we both sing and scream a lot.

After noting that your band is a sibling duo, what is the next key point usually mentioned by journalists? It is usually that we seem to tour a lot, which is true. The tour that we are just completing, which is our last, is the tenth one we have done in the last six years.

In the past, you have added a second bass player. Why not add a guitar? We have had a second bass player and the reason we don't have one anymore, which will also answer the question of why not add a guitar player, is that we have always felt the most comfortable writing songs with just the two of us. Whenever we have had a third member the writing process always seemed to take so much longer. Maybe if we had another sibling they could have been the third member and played guitar, keyboard or bassoon.

What is your favourite record from the mid-90's early “emo” scene? Adam: Shotmaker -- The Crayon Club, a close second would be the Shotmaker/Maximillian Colby split LP. Sometimes it is hard to pick between them. Shannon: Ana Sarca -- “East Bunk Hill”/”Eugene Debs” 7”

Is it true that Adam does the driving and Shannon does the sleeping? Yes. So far this tour Shannon has driven for approximately five minutes, but she has done some intense van napping. Luckily for me though, we have a seasoned road dog named Kyle that splits the driving with me.

Where is your favourite tour stop in Canada? In the U.S? Our favourite place ever on tour I think would be Calgary, AB. we have played absolutely incredible shows there and met so many great people. When we first started to tour, our favourite U.S. place would have been Meadville, PA, but now I think it might be Denver, CO.

If Mach Tiver were a Playstation game, which would you be? I think we would be Britney's Dance Beat. We have all the bass pumping and the hot dance rhythms.

Tell us a bit about your new record. Is it the last from Mach Tiver? The new record, one beat, one chord, is indeed the last Mach Tiver record. We recorded in December with our friend Alex Durlak, who has done the last two records as well. We went a little insane on the packaging this time around. Shannon and her knitting circle knitted the first 100 CD sleeves. The rest are packaged in sewn felt sleeves. All are closed with a nice Mach Tiver button. We are really happy with how it turned out. Thanks a lot to Alex and Ryan Mills, who mastered it.

What's next for Mach Tiver? It seems weird that after August, Mach Tiver will pretty much be done, but it has been increasingly difficult for us to write and practise for the last year or so due to my living in Newfoundland. There are bunch of things going on with both of us. I am playing in a band out in St. John's, Beaumont Hamel, in which I just do vocals and we should be playing in Toronto at the end of August. Shannon plays in the infamous Cougar Party, doing both drumming and vocals.